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Education Quotes... J (page 2)
“It
is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him
in possession of truth.”
John Locke
“Let
us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our
prisons.”
John Ruskin
“Any
activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or
doing it better.”
John Updike
“Four
years was enough of Harvard. I
still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion
that now I could teach myself.”
John Updike
“Much
education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are
giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to
grow their own plants.”
John W. Gardner
“More
money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the
description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious
to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons
if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”
Jonathan Kozol
“I
consider a human soul without education like marble in a quarry, which
shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polisher
sketches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and discovers every
ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through it.”
Joseph Addison
“To teach is to learn twice”
Joseph Joubert
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